I'm not going to beat somebody up for talking smack to me, especially another skater.

I always try to individualize everything, every person. I see individuals and that's why I've never fallen for racism, or any type or classification of people.

We didn't call it a sport necessarily, and skaters definitely weren't thought of as athletes, we were thought of as misfits.

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

When I got sponsored, it symbolized a major change and a major shift in skateboarding.

I feel like the best thing, as far as what I do with kids, is I treat them like human beings.

Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

If someone told me I had to give back, or I'm supposed to give back, or I'm supposed to do these things, I would reject that. My actions are those of valuing and caring.

If I signed a contract that meant someone else wouldn't be playing.

Where I'm coming from is that nothing I do is from a sense of obligation.

Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing. Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope!

When we Take things for Granted, Wha twe're Granted, getsTaken.

Can one be a saint if God does not exist? That is the only concrete problem I know of today.

I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.

Soon we will plunge ourselves into cold shadows, and all of summer's stunning afternoons will be gone. I already hear the dead thuds of logs below falling on the cobblestones and the lawn.

Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.

I don't come down on any simple place as a deletionist or a completionist.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

When something isn't constantly drummed-up by the media, [people] just don't know about it.

Male penguins are unfaithful up to an advanced age, a phenomenon sometimes attributed to the sea air.